Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study 3), take valued goods from others (study 4), lie in a negotiation (study 5), cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize (study 6), and endorse unethical behavior at work (study 7) than were lower-class individuals. Mediator and moderator data demonstrated that upper-class individuals’ unethical tendencies are accounted for, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed.

"A quick search of several neighborhoods of the United States revealed that while pseudoephedrine is difficult to obtain, N-methylamphetamine can be procured at almost any time on short notice and in quantities sufficient for synthesis of useful amounts of the desired material."

"On Saturday February 18, PayPal began threatening indie book publishers and distributors with immediate deactivation of the businesses’ accounts if they did not remove books containing certain sexual themes – namely, specific sexual fantasies that PayPal does not approve of.

PayPal told indie e-book publishers and retailers – such as AllRomance, Smashwords, Excessica and Bookstrand – that if they didn’t remove the offending literature from their catalogs within a few days of notification, PayPal would close their accounts. (…)"

@Si - interesting stuff, and something the games industry could perhaps have a go at. It's our big developer conference in San Fran this week (which I *never* get to go to, bah), and I suspect almost every speaker will be male.

They're peaking too damn quick. I mean in the space of a week, what, there's the NHS calamity, there's Horsegate, there's Gove and his parallel Gmail universe, there's workfare, there's the WRB, it's like they're a teenage boy finding a stash of porn and wanking himself to death. They need to moderate their flow of pure evil if they're going to last. It took Labour over a decade to fuck things up this badly and they managed to counter it with a small amount of sense.